The Sneaky Magpie

Having LoveFilm subscription allows me to keep a very good track of films I have seen. Cinema is not too difficult as I went so few times I clearly remember every single visit. Luckily the very few films I have seen this year turned out to be very good.

I started the year with Waltz with Bashir which was very powerful, moving and real despite the fact that it was animated. I took advantage of the free ELLE subscribers offer and saw Charlie Kaufman’s very gloomy existential struggle in Synecdoche NY; then Coco avant Chanel which I loved very much; next one was rather funny and heartwarming Away We Go written by Dave Eggers and directed by Sam Mendes, and save the best for last Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy no 1 with the amazing Vincent Cassel. I have of course missed a number of films I wanted to see like Fantastic Mr Fox, Katalyn Varga, An Education and Katyn but luckily there is Prince Charles Cinema and DVDs to catch up.

TV series were a big part of this year, my obsession with Mad Men (I cannot understand why BBC are not showing series 3 yet), BBC’s Emma and Cranford showed my addictive nature. I also got to see the wonderful Brideshead Revisited with Jeremy Irons.

I have seen more movies on DVD than ever before, it was bit of catching up on all the classics and cult films. There was lots of Woody Allen (some great, some not so great), lots of Polish cinema (Wajda’s War trilogy; Kieslowski’s Scar, Blind Chance and Camera Buff; The Saragossa Manuscript; The Interrogation), I saw boys’ classics: Robocop, Repo Man, Death Proof, Vanishing Point, The Evil Dead, Scanners, a super girly flick Miss Pettigew Lives for a Day and true cinema giants like 8 1/2 and Aleksander Nevsky and many many more. It was a good year.

This is my list for 2010:

von Trier’s Antichrist

Wajda’s Katyn

Trueba’s Belle Epoque

Minghella’s Breaking and Entering

I am Cuba

Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence

The Aki Kaurismaki collection

Kusturica’s Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and Time of the Gypsies

Allen’s Interiors

Fellini’s La Strada

BBC’s North and South

Hick’s Shine

The Captive (I saw Time Regained earlier this year)

Cantet’s The Class

Zhang’s The Road Home

Haneke’s The White Ribbon

Vidor’s The Fountainhead

Le Conte’s La Veuve De Saint-Pierre

Lamorisse’s The Red Baloon

Bertolucci’s The Conformist

And I think I will have to start the year with Avatar, not my choice but wifely duty calls!

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